# Products & configurator

> Build configurable products — the product tree, pages, questions, answers, and the storefront experience.

Source: CBX documentation, version 3.x (released). Canonical page: https://docs.configbox.at/docs/admin-guide/products/. Last updated 2026-08-05.

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> **Audience:** store admins · **Scope:** building what your customers configure and buy · **Last reviewed:** 2026-07-25

**TL;DR** — A configurable product is a small hierarchy: the **Product** carries pricing and
presentation, its **Pages** are the configuration steps, each page holds **Questions** (the
inputs), and choice questions offer **Answers**. You build all of it from the product tree under
**Products** — and everything you build shows up live on the storefront.

> **Platform note (Magento 2):** this system **fully applies** on Magento-hosted stores — with one
> exception: **product lists** are Magento's job (its catalog does that), and the Product Lists
> screen is hidden there. See [CBX on Magento 2](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/admin-guide/magento2/).

## Articles

1. **[How a product fits together](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/admin-guide/products/how-a-product-fits-together)** — the mental model to read
   before building anything.
2. **[Add a product](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/admin-guide/products/add-a-product)** — create the product record: titles, listings, images,
   base price, visibility.
3. **[Add pages and questions](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/admin-guide/products/add-pages-and-questions)** — the configuration steps and the
   inputs on them, including all question types.
4. **[Add answers to a question](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/admin-guide/products/add-answers)** — the choices customers pick from: prices,
   images, defaults, ordering, availability.
5. **[Set up the visual preview](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/admin-guide/products/set-up-the-visual-preview)** — 2D composite layers or a 3D
   ShapeDiver model that update with every choice.
6. **[Manage product lists](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/admin-guide/products/manage-product-lists)** — the catalogs your storefront shows.
7. **[Add product detail panes](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/admin-guide/products/product-detail-panes)** — the titled info blocks (specs, care,
   delivery) on a product's storefront detail page.
8. **[Copy and retire products](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/admin-guide/products/copy-and-retire-products)** — duplicate a product's structure,
   and take a product offline without deleting its history.
9. **[Edit from the storefront as a manager](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/admin-guide/products/edit-from-the-storefront)** — tweak questions and
   answers inline, while looking at the live configurator.
10. **[Move products between sites](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/admin-guide/products/move-products-between-sites)** — export a product and
   everything belonging to it as a package, and import it into another CBX install: staging to
   live, or one client's site to another.

## Where everything lives

Open **Products** in the CBX menu — the product tree is your home base:

![The product tree](./img/product-tree.jpeg)

Every product expands to its pages, questions and answers; clicking any node opens its edit form,
and **Add product** at the bottom starts a new one. The other entry point is the storefront
itself: as a logged-in manager you get edit buttons on hover, opening the same forms in context.